Nutanix,
a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced its solutions
are enabling the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to
architect an enterprise cloud to improve performance and simplify
management of the mission-critical services that power BART's system.

About
a quarter of all workers in downtown San Francisco and Oakland use BART
for their daily commute to work. BART chose Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Platform to simplify and consolidate operations and deployment and
deliver the high-scalability needed to support its needs as a modern
transit system that averages 129 million trips annually. The Nutanix
solution powers BART's Oracle-based HR, finance and mission critical
maintenance systems, delivering on-demand compute as application demands
grow, as well as 800 virtual desktops, including graphics intensive
desktops, with plans to scale to 2,000.

First
deployed by BART two and a half years ago as part of the ongoing
transformation of its IT architecture, the hyperconverged Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform leverages web-scale engineering,
consumer-grade design and machine intelligence. In replacing BART's
legacy SAN, network and compute infrastructure, which was slow to deploy
new applications, Nutanix's solution helps BART drive significant
performance and availability gains on enterprise applications and deploy
and scale workloads up to 30 percent faster. BART is able to meet
critical maintenance windows for its trains and ensure maximum
availability for its ridership with the Nutanix solution, which delivers
cloud-like scalability and pay-as-you-grow simplicity without
compromising the control, security and predictability that users have
come to expect from on-premises infrastructure.

Nutanix's
ease of use and operational simplicity allowed BART to streamline the
number of individuals managing its IT environment by 50 percent,
allowing them to refocus personnel and resources on other critical
initiatives. BART was also able to significantly reduce its datacenter
footprint by 67 percent from six racks to two racks and drive additional
power consumption savings to reduce its carbon footprint.

"Nutanix
helps us honor our commitment to building a better BART by enabling our
team to focus on delivering applications and services instead of
managing our datacenter," said Ravi Misra, CIO, BART. "When we first set
out to build our own in-house enterprise cloud, we realized we would
need products from six different vendors to build a solution that none
of them would own. Nutanix was able to deliver what those six different
vendors could and more, since we are also able to take advantage of
their excellent customer service when challenges arise."

Nutanix
provided 30 percent cost savings compared to other vendors considered
during the evaluation process, which proved critical for BART as a
public organization with limited resources.

"Transportation
infrastructure can benefit greatly from the enterprise cloud, which
delivers business transformation through scalable, easy-to-use
services," said Anton Granic, Vice President, Americas West and Canada,
Nutanix. "Nutanix has provided BART an underlying foundation for
business critical applications that will help this public transit
service scale to meet increasing ridership and IT demand over the coming
years. When supported by Nutanix's legendary customer service, it's a
great recipe for success."